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  2. Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

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    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.

  3. Perdido (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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    Perdido (Spanish for lost) is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2,450 meters (8,040 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. [1] The platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas.

  4. Louisiana Offshore Oil Port - Wikipedia

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    LOOP Pumping Platform Complex. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) is a deepwater port in the Gulf of Mexico 29 kilometers (18 nautical miles) [1] off the coast of Louisiana near the town of Port Fourchon. LOOP provides tanker offloading and temporary storage services for crude oil transported on

  5. Thunder Horse Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The field is being developed by BP plc and 25% partner ExxonMobil [1] It is the largest offshore production platform in the Gulf, with a processing capacity of 250 thousand barrels per day (40 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) of oil and 200 million cubic feet per day (5,700,000 m 3 /d) of natural gas, and the field is believed to hold in excess of 1 billion barrels (160 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil. [2]

  6. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Notable oil platforms include Baldpate, Bullwinkle, Mad Dog, Magnolia, Mars, Petronius, and Thunder Horse. Notable individual wells include Jack 2 and Knotty Head. The eastern Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Gulf Coast Florida, has never been a petroleum-producing area due to federal and state restrictions on exploration.

  7. Bullwinkle (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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    Platform being towed out to sea. Bullwinkle was a 1,736 feet (529 m) [1] tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.Installed in 1988, the total weight of the platform was 77,000 tons, of which the steel jacket comprises 49,375 tons. [2]

  8. Mexico's Pemex reports fire at offshore platform, nine ... - AOL

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    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's state energy company Pemex said on Saturday that a fire broke out at one of its platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, adding that it had activated emergency protocols ...

  9. Petronius (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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    Petronius is a deepwater compliant tower oil platform built from 1997 to 2000 [1] and operated by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico, 210 km (130.5 mi) southeast of New Orleans, United States. A compliant piled tower design, it is 640 metres (2,100 ft) high [ 1 ] to the tip of flare boom from the mudline (sea floor) and was arguably the tallest free ...

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